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Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Having A Reprobate Mind

“And even as they did not like
to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate
mind, to do those things which are not convenient” Rom 1:28

Paul
gives us a warning in the Epistle to Romans. He speaks of a time,
that will take place, where people will have a reprobate mind. Have
you ever asked yourself, if we are living in such a time. Do the
majority of people living today, have a reprobate mind. Are we
having a reprobate mind. The following message, will take a look
at what is a Reprobate mind.

Having a reprobate is
refusing to consider God in one's choices. It is to know there is a
God. To know that He exists. However, they just don't care. They
have no desire, for Him. They do not worship him. They do not offer
him thanks. He is the furthest thing from their thoughts. They
simply, have no time for God. “For although they knew God, they
neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their
thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened” Rom
1:21

Having a reprobatemind
is to worship creation over God. They don't worship the creator,
they worship creation instead. They will even create idols and
worship them. They will worship mother nature, animals such as a
cow, or even an idol of a saint or biblical figure. Some will even
worship money, their jobs, a celebrity, or another man or woman. If
you are worshiping anything, other than God, you have a reprobate
mind. “and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made
to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and
reptiles.” Rom 1:23

Having a reprobate mind
starts off small. You don't wake up the next morning and decide to
keep God out of your life and choices. You may even go to church.
However, before you know it you “have
become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and
depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.
They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and
boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.”
Romans 1:29 to 30

Having a reprobate mind is
giving into sinful desires. It starts off small. It is giving into
sinful desires a little at a time. It just no longer cares about
what God has to say on a subject. We started having a reprobate mind
since we have taken prayer out of school in 1962. At first we were
loose, when it came to sex outside of marriage. We have seen an
increase with babies out of wedlock. Even our teens are having
babies, and most people think it is ok. “Therefore God gave them
over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the
degrading of their bodies with one another.” Rom 1:24

Having a reprobate mind
is going against nature. At
first we just get sexually active, but then all of a sudden things
change. We start accepting sexual acts that are not even natural.
We start having and accepting homosexuality as normal. When in
reality, it goes against all nature. No other animal will have
sexual behavior with the same sex. Only we do it. Sex was a means
to reproduce. It was to be only between a married man and woman. We
have changed that, and by doing that we have gone after something
that is not even natural. This was the final step, that Romans
chapter one speaks about, of a reprobate mind. “Because
of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women
exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same
way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were
inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with
other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their
error.” Rom 1:26 and 27

Having
a reprobate mind is to
bring punishment upon ourselves. If you look at Rom 1:27 you will
see that we receive the “due penalty for their error.” God does
not have to punish us, we punish ourselves. We bring God's judgment
on ourselves. Just think about it for a moment. Studies have shown
that sex outside of marriage brings, unplanned pregnancy, transmitted
disease, identity issues, depression and even broken relationships
that can even end in divorce.

Having a reprobate mind
will eventually lead to death. This death is not physical death,
even though it can lead to that as well, it is talking about a
spiritual death. It is to be separated from God for all eternity.
It will keep you out of heaven. God is a holy God, and will not
allow anyone who continues to rebel against him to enter heaven. In
fact even if you don't personally do it, if you approve of others
doing them, God holds you guilty. “Although
they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things
deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but
also approve of those who practice them.” Rom
1:32

The
answer to having a
reprobate mind is 2
Chronicles 7:14. “If my
people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, and pray,
and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways. Then will I hear
from heaven, I will forgive themselves, and I will heal their land.”

If
you will like to ask God for forgiveness, and turn from your wicked
ways, then say this prayer from your heart. Dear Jesus, I have
sinned against you, forgive me. I believe you died on the cross for
my sins and rose again. I surrender my life to you. Come into my
life. In Jesus name I pray amen.

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